When Massoud Amir Behrani, a former colonel in the Iranian military, sinks his remaining funds into a house he buys at auction, he unwittingly puts himself and his family on a trajectory to disaster; the house once belonged to Kathy Nicolo, a self-destructive alcoholic, who engages in legal, then personal confrontation to get it backView book at Amazon

City of Bones

Author:

Michael Connelly

Genres:

Mystery
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Thrillers/Suspense

Publisher:

Warner Books; 1st ed edition (April 16, 2002)

Connelly's eighth Bosch title, Bosch and his well-dressed partner, Jerry Edgar, are working to identify a child's skeleton, buried for 20 years in the forest off Hollywood's Wonderland Drive, and to bring the killer to belated justiceView book at Amazon

Kind of Blue

Author:

Miles Corwin

Genres:

Mystery

Publisher:

Former L.A. Times crime reporter Corwin (Homicide Special: A Year with the LAPD's Elite Detective Unit) introduces an engaging Jewish police detective in his first novel, a grittily realistic story of murder, stupidity, and redemption. View book at Amazon

Cemetery Road

Author:

Gar Anthony Haywood

Genres:

Literary Fiction
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Mystery

Publisher:

Severn House Publishers (October 29, 2010)

Review. Reverberations from a crime committed in their youth follow three grown men with the tenacity and inevitability of Greek tragedy in Haywood's beautifully crafted novel of unintended consequences.View book at Amazon